Knut Kielland

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Knut Kielland

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My research focuses on northern ecology including biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling, physiological plant ecology, soil-plant-animal interactions, and predator-prey ecology. I engage in experimental field investigations, modeling studies of plant and animal populations, as well as interdisciplinary socio-ecological research. Since 1991 I have been an active investigator with the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (BNZ-LTER) program focusing on the ecological processes in boreal forest ecosystems in the context of climate change. As a Senior Investigator on the BNZ-LTER I study soil-plant-herbivore interactions using large, permanent mammal exclosures. Since 1998 my colleagues and I have been monitoring the demography of snowshoe hares via live-captures on permanent trapping grids, and more recently I started deploying VHF and GPS transmitters on hares and their major predator, Canada lynx, for further studies of habitat use, activity patterns, and dispersal. I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary research as indicated by previous projects addressing issues such as the ecology and economics of caribou-reindeer interactions (NSF 1999-2005) and the effects of river ice dynamics on subsistence activities in rural Alaska (NSF 2009-2013). I maintain collaborations with state and federal resource agencies on projects related to the ecology and management of wildlife in Alaska.

Current projects associated with the Bonanza Creek LTER program and resource agency collaborations are:

Interactions of succession and herbivory by insects and mammals in boreal forests
Habitat use and migratory behavior of caribou in Northwest Alaska
Population monitoring of snowshoe hares
Snowshoe hare - predator relationships
Movement ecology of lynx

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Knut Kielland

Professor of Ecology

kkielland@alaska.edu

Office:

406 Irving 1

907-474-7164

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408/409 Irving 1

x7162

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Institute of Arctic Biology

PO Box 757000

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000

1990: Ph.D. (Ecology), University of Alaska Fairbanks
1982: B.S. (Anthropology & Biology), University of Alaska Fairbanks

2016 - present: Professor, Dept. of Biology & Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2008 - present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology & Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2001 - 2008: Associate Research Professor, IAB, UAF
1999 - 2001: Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept of Biology and Wildlife, UAF
1990 -1999: Research Associate, IAB, UAF

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2006

Valentine, D.W. et al., 2006. Patterns of biogeochemistry in Alaskan boreal forests. In F. S. Chapin, III et al. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. New York: Oxford University, pp. 241-266.

Belant, J.L. et al., 2006. Interspecific Resource Partitioning in Sympatric Ursids. Ecological Applications, 16, pp.2333–2343.

Kielland, K. et al., 2006. Contribution of winter processes to soil nitrogen flux in taiga forest ecosystems. Biogeochemistry, 81, pp.349–360.

Kielland, K., McFarland, J. & Olson, K., 2006. Amino acid uptake in deciduous and coniferous taiga ecosystems. Plant Soil, 288, pp.297–307.

Loomis, P.F. et al., 2006. Nitrogen cycling at treeline: Latitudinal and elevational patterns across a boreal landscape. Ecoscience, 13, pp.544–556.

2005

Schneider, W.S., Kielland, K. & Finstad, G.L., 2005. Factors in the adaptation of reindeer herders to caribou on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology, 42, pp.36–49.

2003

Huntington, H.P. et al., 2003. Human dimensions of the Arctic system. Arctic Research of the United States (National Science Foundation), 17, pp.59–69.

2002

Jones, D.L. & Kielland, K., 2002. Soil amino acid turnover dominates the nitrogen flux in permafrost-dominated taiga forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 34, pp.209–219.

McFarland, J.M. et al., 2002. Cycling dynamics of NH4+ and amino acid N in soils of a deciduous boreal forest ecosystem. Ecosystems, 5, pp.775–788.

McKane, R.B. et al., 2002. Resource-based niches provide a basis for plant species diversity and dominance in arctic tundra. Nature, letters to Nature, 415, pp.68–71.

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